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2011 Code of Virginia
Title 63.2 WELFARE (SOCIAL SERVICES).
Chapter 12 Adoption (63.2-1200 thru 63.2-1253)
- 63.2-1200 Who may place children for adoption
- 63.2-1200.1 Recognition of foreign adoption; issuance of birth certificates.
- 63.2-1201 Filing of petition for adoption; venue; jurisdiction; and proceedings
- 63.2-1201.1 Previously married persons who stood in loco parentis during the time of the marriage may adopt in ...
- 63.2-1202 Parental, or agency, consent required; exceptions
- 63.2-1203 When consent is withheld or unobtainable
- 63.2-1204 When consent is revocable; fraud or duress; mutual consent
- 63.2-1205 Best interests of the child; standards for determining
- 63.2-1205.1 Violent sex offenders prohibited from adopting a child
- 63.2-1206 No parental presumption after revocation period expires
- 63.2-1207 Removal of child from adoptive home
- 63.2-1208 Investigations; report to circuit court
- 63.2-1209 Entry of interlocutory order
- 63.2-1210 Probationary period, interlocutory order and order of reference not required under certain circumst...
- 63.2-1211 Revocation of interlocutory order
- 63.2-1212 Visitations during probationary period and report
- 63.2-1213 Final order of adoption
- 63.2-1214 Annual review of pending petitions for adoption; duty of Commissioner and circuit court cler...
- 63.2-1215 Legal effects of adoption
- 63.2-1216 Final order not subject to attack after six months
- 63.2-1217 Provision of false information; penalty
- 63.2-1218 Certain exchange of property, advertisement, solicitation prohibited; penalty
- 63.2-1219 Suspected violation of property exchange information
- 63.2-1220 Issuance of birth certificates for children adopted in the Commonwealth
- 63.2-1220.1 Establishment of minimum training requirements
- 63.2-1220.2 Authority to enter into post-adoption contact and communication agreements.
- 63.2-1220.3 Approval of post-adoption contact and communication agreements.
- 63.2-1220.4 Jurisdiction to approve post-adoption contact and communication agreements.
- 63.2-1221 Placement of children for adoption by agency or local board
- 63.2-1222 Execution of entrustment agreement by birth parent(s); exceptions; notice and objection to entrustm...
- 63.2-1223 Revocation of entrustment agreement
- 63.2-1224 Explanation of process, legal effects of adoption required
- 63.2-1225 Determination of appropriate home
- 63.2-1226 When birth parents recommend adoptive parents
- 63.2-1227 Filing of petition for agency adoption
- 63.2-1228 Forwarding of petition
- 63.2-1228.1 , 63.2-1228.2
- 63.2-1229 Foster parent adoption
- 63.2-1230 Placement of children by parent or guardian
- 63.2-1231 Home study; meeting required; exception
- 63.2-1232 Requirements of a parental placement adoption
- 63.2-1233 Consent to be executed in juvenile and domestic relations district court; exceptions
- 63.2-1234 When consent is revocable
- 63.2-1235 Adoptive home not in child's best interests
- 63.2-1236 Duty of Department to disseminate information
- 63.2-1237 Petition for parental placement adoption; jurisdiction; contents
- 63.2-1238 Forwarding of petition; when investigation and report not required
- 63.2-1239 Return of copies furnished to counsel
- 63.2-1240 Court issuing order deemed sending agency under Interstate Compact on Placement of Childre...
- 63.2-1241 Adoption of child by new spouse of birth or adoptive parent
- 63.2-1242 Investigation and report at discretion of circuit court
- 63.2-1242.1 Close relative adoption
- 63.2-1242.2 Close relative adoption; child in home less than three years
- 63.2-1242.3 Close relative placement; child in home for three years or more
- 63.2-1243 Adoption of certain persons eighteen years of age or over
- 63.2-1244 Investigation and report at discretion of circuit court; exception
- 63.2-1245 Separate order book, file and index of adoption cases; to whom available; permanent retentio...
- 63.2-1246 Disposition of reports; disclosure of information as to identity of birth family
- 63.2-1247 Disclosure to birth family; adoptive parents; medical, etc., information; exchange of information; ...
- 63.2-1248 Fees for home studies, investigations, visitations and reports
- 63.2-1249 Establishment of Registry
- 63.2-1250 Registration; notice; form
- 63.2-1251 Furnishing information; confidentiality; penalty
- 63.2-1252 Search of registry
- 63.2-1253 Duty to publicize registry
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